Hi Jon:
PLATT:
> > My point about science's faith in chance is simply to suggest that
any
> > worldview contains within it certain unprovable assumptions which must be
> > accepted on faith, science being no exception.
JON:
> Pardon me for jumping in, but Platt, you realize that what you've written
> above agrees with one of the main standpoints of so-called "postmodernism"
> which in the past you have claimed to despise.
Feel free to jump any time. I despise postmodernism not for saying that
science is based on unprovable assumptions, but for asserting that it is
a tool of white Western male domination, aggression and oppression. If
only postmodernists would admit that SOM intellectual control of
society has proven itself to be a disaster wherever and whenever it has
been tried, then I would be less opposed. But of course they won't
because their agenda is to seize social power for "the good of
humanity" which was also Stalin's excuse for killing 20 million of his
own people in case anyone has forgotten.
Platt
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